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CAMP RISE ABOVE INC

CAMP RISE ABOVE INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $845,258 to it, the largest being COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($123,250). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$411k
Funders on record
30
Grants received
$845k
Net assets
$678k
16/30 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Camp Rise Above Inc does

Mission

Camp rise above provides life-changing camp programs for children and adults with serious illnesses, disabilities, and life challenges.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Our summer camps, including day camp and weeklong overnight camp sessions, provide fun, life changing camp experiences to children with serious illnesses, life challenges, and disabilities. Our camps make it possible for these children to experience the "magic" of childhood regardless of their medical status, free of charge to participating families.

    $146,521 spent$43,065 earned by the program
    41% of program spending
  2. Our hospital camp provides an in-hospital camping experience to children whose medical needs prevent them from going away to camp. Through a partnership with the five children's hospital across the state of south carolina, we transform hospital playrooms, hallways, lobbies, and more into a one-day summer camp complete with arts, crafts, games, and camp activities to enjoy.

    $556 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Our family fun days allow our summer campers and families to reconnect throughout the year at fun, active events at no cost to them. Activities include high ropes adventure days, adaptive horseback riding, an aquarium visit, a fall festival and more.

    $211,315 spent$3,625 earned by the program
    59% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $358,392.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($147k) Expenses 100 ($113k) Net assets 100 ($130k)2018 Revenue 269 ($395k) Expenses 119 ($135k) Net assets 301 ($390k)2019 Revenue 130 ($191k) Expenses 146 ($165k) Net assets 321 ($417k)2020 Revenue 129 ($189k) Expenses 121 ($136k) Net assets 362 ($470k)2021 Revenue 240 ($352k) Expenses 208 ($235k) Net assets 439 ($570k)2022 Revenue 276 ($406k) Expenses 326 ($368k) Net assets 468 ($607k)2023 Revenue 327 ($481k) Expenses 379 ($427k) Net assets 509 ($661k)2024 Revenue 328 ($482k) Expenses 385 ($435k) Net assets 545 ($708k)2025 Revenue 280 ($411k) Expenses 392 ($442k) Net assets 522 ($678k)
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Revenue (280)Expenses (392)Net assets (522)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $131k to $392k (+199%).

$131k
$392k
$418k
$487k
$605k
$611k
$670k
$716k
$713k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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2018
2019
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2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

86% of CAMP RISE ABOVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
’17
$260k
’18
$26k
’19
$53k
’20
$117k
’21
$38k
’22
$53k
’23
$47k
’24
−$31k
’25
19
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Erin Ulmer

Executive director

Board chair

Alysa Beutler

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed101113131312111110
Joined·+3+2+0+0+1+0+0+5
No longer listed·20002106
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $29k → $149k.

7 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CAMP RISE ABOVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CAMP RISE ABOVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

54% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CAMP RISE ABOVE INC.

15%
largest funder
36%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 50% · 2019 32% · 2020 25% · 2021 21% · 2022 29% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

60% of CAMP RISE ABOVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

51% of CAMP RISE ABOVE INC's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $265k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CAMP RISE ABOVE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve19.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 7%Fundraising 12%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

84%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

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Questions and answers

Who funds CAMP RISE ABOVE INC?
CAMP RISE ABOVE INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $845,258 to it, the largest being COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($123,250). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CAMP RISE ABOVE INC have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $845,258 in grants to CAMP RISE ABOVE INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAMP RISE ABOVE INC?
COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $123,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAMP RISE ABOVE INC find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 30 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing